I love to work with this species - they grow so fast!
I planted a few seedlings into growth bags to be trained into Lollypop trees. When I started in bonsai I did not have access to a lot of bonsai material so I used this one to practice proportions, ratios, branch placement etc. Looking back today I can not figure out what I have done to the poor stick in a pot! This is the tree somewhere in 2010:
I know I could not use the tree as is and decided to let the two lower buds on the base grow out to try and thicken it up:
I decided to remove the old trunk as well as the thickest sacrifice branch so I could get some taper and movement. At that stage I was thinking of growing it into the traditional informal upright:
Picked up the new trunkline:
I decided to let go of the idea of an informal upright and rather go for an African style. The tree 2012:
June 2013 - decided to cut the lowest left hand branch:
The tree October 2013:
The right hand side's crown will be grown out a bit. There is a good chance the tree will end up as a Pierneef form tree.
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